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Arkadi Strugatsky (original book) &
Boris Strugatsky (original book) ...
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18 December 2008 (Russia) more
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Not the worst opportunity to waste $40 million more (11 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vasily Stepanov | ... | Maksim | |
| Yuliya Snigir | ... | Rada | |
| Pyotr Fyodorov | ... | Guy | |
| Sergey Garmash | ... | Zef | |
| Yuriy Kutsenko | ... | Vepr (as Gosha Kutsenko) | |
| Aleksey Serebryakov | ... | Strannik | |
| Mikhail Yevlanov | ... | Chachu | |
| Andrei Merzlikin | ... | Fank | |
| Anna Mikhalkova | ... | Ordi | |
| Maksim Sukhanov | ... | Papa | |
| Fyodor Bondarchuk | ... | Prokuror | |
| Yuriy Tsurilo | ... | General | |
| Kirill Pirogov | ... | Svyokor | |
| Yevgeni Sidikhin | ... | Test | |
| Aleksey Gorbunov | ... | Shurin |
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Обитаемый остров (Russia)
The Inhabited Island (International: English title)
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Continuity: When Zef arrests Maxim, he orders young man to drop his belt, and he does. In next scene, we see Maxim still wearing his belt. more
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Followed by Obitaemyy ostrov: Skhvatka (2009) more
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In fact neither I nor my company had expected to be strongly impressed by the movie, when we joined to watch it on Saturday night. But having read the Strugatsky's plot-book, I was amazed that the director had followed the story so precisely. The only evident mistake was the premature assassination of one of the characters. Still the impression on the film is partial due to its halves shown with a 4 month break.
As to fighting scenes, I estimate them as dead. There was almost NO real action. The usage of Bullet Time technology of matrix all fight long turned the action into slow and boring trash. The martial arts instructors should really be ashamed of this.
There is a Russian proverb: "The first pancake is laid shapeless". It is just about the film. The spectator expected to see a miracle, because a $40million worth Russian film is considered like a $400million Hollywood movie. This expectations of a common viewer were ruined. I do hope that next attempts of Russian directors and producers to catch up with Hollywood will be more successful.